In Search of Hippocrates: A Solution to the Health Care Crisis Facing America

The authors of “In Search of Hippocrates” take a cold hard look at the primary causes of rising medical costs and present a simple, fair, and equitable solution to the problem: a common sense solution that will allow every American citizen to decide who treats them and how their medical care dollars are spent without interference from government administrators or health insurance companies. More

AT WHAT PRICE HEALTH CARE?

Over the last several decades the cost of Health Care in America has skyrocketed to the point where expenditures for medical care will soon -- in a matter of years -- bankrupt our Nation. This was not the kind of future anticipated for our democracy by the Founding Fathers who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of The United States of America. It has therefore become necessary for us to truthfully identify and vigorously confront the real causes of the Health Care Crisis facing America and account for those massive expenditures that could cripple our economy.

"In Search of Hippocrates" is a forceful and comprehensive analysis of the history of how we got into this mess and an in depth examination of the major cost drivers accelerating the upward spiral of rising medical care expenses. This presentation gives both the American people and their elected representatives the opportunity to take a cold hard look at the facts and presents a simple, fair, and equitable solution to the problem. It is an innovative and enterprising solution that will put every American citizen in charge of how their money is spent and, at the same time, provide all of us with excellent and affordable Health Care at significantly reduced costs.

The gauntlet has been cast for us to do what is necessary to meet this challenge and to maintain our Nation’s status as the most powerful industrial democracy in the world.

Mark J. Handwerker was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in three of the five boroughs of the Big Apple. He is a teacher and writer with more than a dozen publications, including books and articles in a number of scientific fields. He graduated with a BS from CCNY in Psychology/Biology and moved to California in 1972 were he attended UCI, graduating with a PhD in Biology in 1976. He began teaching for the Los Angeles Unified School District in 1982 until accepting a position with the Temecula Valley Unified School District in 1988, where he continues to teach young people the basic methodology and principles of science once esteemed and put into practice by the courageous Founders of this Nation. Dr. Handwerker lives with his wife, Judith, in Riverside, California.

Dr. Handwerker coauthored "InSearch of Hippocrates" with Martin J. Collen. Dr. Collen was born in Oakland, California, and raised in Los Angeles. He is an internationally recognized physician who, for more than 30 years, has practiced “the art and science of medicine” according to the tenets of the Hippocratic Oath. He is the author of more than 250 original research and review publications, including books, articles, and abstracts. He graduated with a BA in Mathematics from UCLA in 1966, and attended Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago, Illinois, graduating with an MD degree in 1970. He completed a year of internship in medicine and a year of residency in General Surgery at UCI, and went on to complete an additional two years of residency in Internal Medicine and a two year Fellowship in Gastroenterology at UCLA until 1977. He was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCI, from 1977 to 1980, and Instructor of the Year for two successive years. He completed a research Fellowship in Gastroenterology from 1980 to 1985 at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and was Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Gastrointestinal Research at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., from 1985 to 1990. He moved back to California in 1990, where he was Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University from 1990 to 1995 and Clinical Professor of Medicine from 1995 to 2005. He earned an Executive MBA in Health Care from UCI in 1999. Since 1995, he has been in private practice as a gastroenterologist in the Inland Empire. Dr. Collen lives with his wife, Roberta, and their youngest of four children in Riverside, California.